Faculty news
Prosody Lab publications
Michael Wagner's Prosody Lab has had a prolific year, with publications including work by Elise McClay (McGill BA '12) and current PhD student Jeff...
September 2, 2014
Welcome new postdoc Michael “mitcho” Erlewine!
McLing would like to extend a warm welcome to another new postdoc, Michael (mitcho) Erlewine. Mitcho will be joining the department this summer...
July 7, 2014
Charles Boberg’s research in Metro news
Charles Boberg's research on Canadian English was prominently featured in Metro news last week, online, and in print across Canada... except here in Quebec!...
June 9, 2014
Brendan Gillon returns from India
Brendan Gillon is just back from four months as a visiting professor at IIT (Indian Institute of Technology) Bombay, in the department of Humanities...
May 19, 2014
Follow up on the Alberta Accent Challenge
Last week McLing posted about Charles Boberg's research on regional Canadian accents featured in the Calgary Harald. The follow-up results of the Alberta...
May 19, 2014
Charles Boberg’s research in the news
The Calgary Herald just produced a piece based on recent research by Charles Boberg on regional variation in the phonetics of Canadian English. Take...
May 5, 2014
SSHRC Insight Grant to Clayards and Wagner
Meghan Clayards and Michael Wagner (Co-Applicants) were awarded a 4-year SSHRC Insight Grant ($240,750): "Breaking into the Acoustic Stream: The role of allophonic...
April 21, 2014
SSHRC Connection Grant to Elfner and Wagner
Emily Elfner and Michael Wagner (Co-Applicants) were awarded a 1-year Connection Grant ($14,610) for the upcoming conference "Exploring the Interfaces 3: Prosody and...
April 21, 2014
Grodzinsky in Science Magazine
A new study in Neurolinguistics–"Phonetic Feature Encoding in Human Superior Temporal Gyrus"–is featured as the lead article in this week's Science Magazine (library link: http://www.sciencemag.org.proxy1.library.mcgill.ca/content/343/6174/1006)....
March 3, 2014
Digging into Data grant to Bale, Coon, and Polinsky
A research collaboration among Alan Bale (Concordia University), Jessica Coon (McGill) and Maria Polinsky (Harvard University) was among the 14 Digging Into Data Challenge winners this year. The COULD...
February 10, 2014
Glyne Piggott in Paris
Professor Emeritus Glyne Piggott just gave and invited talk, "Words as the exponents of complex syntactic heads: evidence from minimality" at the workshop on Theoretical...
February 10, 2014
Michael Wagner presents in Israel
Michael Wagner is giving an invited talk today at a workshop called 'Focus Sensitive Expressions from a Cross Linguistic Perspective', organized by Yael Greenberg...
February 3, 2014